New firmware goodies

We are very excited about all of these new features in our production firmware scheduled to be released at your router’s next update cycle:

DNSthingy now supports authoritative entries, allowing you to use a name instead of IP for internal (or external) resources.

Device discovery has been changed from ARP broadcasts to enrollment on “first-seen” basis from the perspective of receiving a DNS request.

Unknown devices including queries from foreign subnets including internal vlans not locally-connected, are now treated with your default ruleset.

A new utility is included to support future NVRAM migrations (on ASUS routers only).

The feature to allow remote support has been improved (previously it required some additional manual steps which are no longer required).

DNScrypt support is included in firmware, and will be introduced in the dashboard very soon.

Many more bug fixes and stability improvements.

It is also worth noting that ClearOS marketplace subscribers will be updated automatically as long as you’re auto-updating/upgrading your ClearOS software. pfSense subscribers will need to visit your Packages section and confirm your update/upgrade.